Showing posts with label Nutrient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nutrient. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Bean Vegetables Benefits

Beans is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (alternately Leguminosae) used for human food or animal feed.

The whole young pods of bean plants, if picked before the pods ripen and dry, are very tender and may be eaten cooked or raw. Thus the word "green beans" means "green" in the sense of unripe (many are in fact not green in color), as the beans inside

Monday, June 7, 2010

Cucumber Nutrient benefits for Health

The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon.(Cucumber).

Cucumbers, scientifically known as Cucumis sativus, are grown to either be eaten fresh or to be pickled. Those that are to be eaten fresh are commonly called slicing cucumbers. They are cylindrical in shape and commonly range in

Brassica Oleracea Benefits for Health

Brassica oleracea, or Wild Cabbage, is a species of Brassica native to coastal southern and western Europe, where its tolerance of salt and lime and its intolerance of competition from other plants typically restrict its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs, like the chalk cliffs on both sides of the English Channel, (wikipedia Brassica oleracea).

This is a group of plants belonging to the

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Broccoli Nutrients

Broccoli (from the Italian plural of broccolo, referring to "the flowering top of a cabbage") is a plant of the mustard/cabbage family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae). It is classified in the Italica cultivar group of the species Brassica oleracea. Broccoli has large flower heads, usually green in color, arranged in a tree-like fashion on branches sprouting from a thick, edible stalk. The mass

Tomatoes Nutrient

Tomatoes Nutrient Content from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatoes
 Red tomatoes, raw
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 75 kJ (18 kcal)
Carbohydrates 4 g
Sugars 2.6 g
Dietary fiber 1 g
Fat 0.2 g
Protein 1 g
Water 95 g
Vitamin C 13 mg (22%)


















Many varieties of tomatoes, such as large-sized tomato fruit, tomato vegetable with smaller size and cherry